Chapter 403: Rookie Race (I)
All-Star Weekend arranges a community event for every participating NBA player. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
This is also part of the NBA's public welfare and humanistic care, and at the same time, it plays an important role in shaping the positive image of the stars and the league.
Yang Di was arranged to go to the community to help the families of workers in need paint the walls.
His height and long arms are equivalent to ordinary people standing on a ladder and painting, Yang Di is in a group with James and Wade, and the three of them have been busy until three o'clock.
Then the community invited the children to come over and play a game of basketball with the three of them.
They were on the community's basketball court, staging all kinds of dunks and fancy dribbling that caused passers-by to scream, and the media reporters who followed them left many precious photo records that appeared on the highlights of All-Star Weekend the next day.
In the evening, Yang Di went to Yao's restaurant, and Yao Ming invited Yang Di to dinner.
"Why don't you come and eat with us?" Anne asked over the phone.
"No, you can eat by yourself, anyway, I'll go back to the hotel after eating." Yang Di explained: "Yao Ming's mother cooks the dishes herself, which is a bit like a family dinner, and it is difficult to excuse it. ”
"Okay, I know, then you should be careful on the road."
Yang Di snorted, vaguely hearing what Anne and her friend were talking about watching movies and the like before hanging up the phone, thinking that it was probably their activities after dinner.
Yao Ming has a good reputation in the NBA and is the image representative of Mr. Yes, while Yang Di is portrayed as a more unruly, rebellious and bad image. But Yao Ming's parents discussed Yang Di, in Yao Ming's mouth, Yang Di is just a little brother under the age of 22, although he does have an outside personality, but he is not the kind of villain in the history of the alliance.
So when Yang Di came to Yao Ming's restaurant, he was welcomed by Yao Ming's family.
Everyone came to the box of Yao Restaurant, and Yao Ming's mother called Yang Di "Xiao Di" very warmly.
"Where is Xiao Di from?"
"N city, very close to Shanghai."
"N City is really close to Shanghai, and you and Yao Ming can go back to Shanghai together when you return to China in the future." Yao Ming's mother said with a smile, and then gave Yang Di a piece of braised pork.
"Thank you." Yang Di was moved by Yao Ming's mother's enthusiasm, and remembered that he and his parents had left for almost half a year.
"Did you talk about your girlfriend?"
"Ahem." Yao Ming on the side almost didn't squirt out a mouthful of water, choking so much that he couldn't speak.
"We've talked about it." Yang Di was a little embarrassed, thinking that he had talked about four of them at once.
Yao Ming's mother glanced at Yao Ming, "I saw that Xiaodi was still young, so I thought he didn't talk about it, but I didn't expect Xiaodi to be very fast, much better than Yao Ming at that time!" ”
"How can there be, Brother Yao is also very strong, isn't it very good to talk to Sister Ye Li now!"
"Yes, they are going to get married next year, and you must come over then." Yao Ming's mother pulled Yang Di, and the more she looked at Yang Di, the more she liked it.
"Yes, yes, let's come together next year." Yao Ming's father also sat on the side and poured a little red wine for Yang Di, "Come, drink." ”
"Okay, okay, no problem." Yang Di took a sip, and then took the wine glass and touched it with Yao Ming's father, "I'll drink less, and athletes will quit drinking." ”
"Okay, okay, hurry up and eat more vegetables." Yao Ming's mother added a little more food to Yang Di.
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Yang Di drank a little wine, and took a few sips on his mouth, he was very restrained himself, knowing that alcohol is such a thing, athletes can touch it as little as possible, and there have been many amazing and gorgeous peerless geniuses in the history of the NBA, and finally fell quickly because he thought he was greedy for alcohol.
After Yao Ming's family dinner, the two of them drove to the Toyota Center Arena together.
The Toyota Center Arena is also a new arena built this season, and the reason why the All-Star Game was held in Houston is part of a reference to this.
Tonight was the Rookie Challenge, outside the arena, the world's media were waiting, and when Yang Di's Lamborghini drove into the ground parking lot of the stadium, it attracted a lot of attention, and even fans with mobile phones to take pictures.
"It's a powerful car."
When Yang Di got off the bus, he was even more starry, and many people recognized him, the superstar who participated in the All-Star Game this year, the popular king from China, and the all-star ticket king.
The scream suddenly remembered, resounding throughout the night sky.
Yang Di smiled and waved his hand, and then walked into the stadium along the arranged VIP channel.
As soon as I entered the stadium, I heard a woman's exclamation.
"Yang Di?"
Yang Di turned his head and saw Isabella, an Asian girl who was looking at him in surprise at the entrance of the VIP passage, her round almond-like eyes looked particularly cute.
"How did you get in, it's VIP access, only NBA stars and celebrities....... Oh, I see, you're the rookie who came to the game this year, aren't you? "Isabella is very happy to see Yang Di, Yang Di she met yesterday is the first insider she met after coming to the United States, although it can only be regarded as half, but it is also a good start, today she came to the rookie challenge scene, on the one hand, she came to watch the game, on the other hand, she also showed her face more, and she was familiar.
"Yes, I'm an NBA player, but I'm not here for today's game."
"What?" Isabella felt that she was really eating basketball for nothing, and none of her guesses were accurate.
"Anyway, I hate you like I came to see the game."
"Are you a star in the NBA?" Isabella suddenly had a flash of inspiration, stepped forward with her eyes shining, and grabbed the corner of Yang Di's clothes excitedly.
From the very beginning, Yang Di's skin color made her think that Yang Di might just be a soy sauce player, but now that she looks at it, Yang Di really doesn't seem to be an ordinary player.
The two of them made a big move, which immediately attracted the attention of many people, and many media who had already come in looked at this face, isn't this Yang Di, and they were immediately excited, and they all rushed over.
Isabella didn't expect a bunch of media to suddenly surround her, and she suddenly felt so happy that it was difficult to breathe.
Then, everyone ignored her beauty, and a bunch of microphones gathered together and handed them to Yang Di's mouth, and the reporters crowded forward, scrambling to ask questions.
"Yang Di, what do you think of this year's All-Star Weekend?"
"Yang Di, you have added a lot of positive image points to yourself in this afternoon's community activities, did you mean it?"
"Some people say that you are very dissatisfied with the organizing committee's failure to arrange a special person and a special car, and made some inappropriate remarks?"
Some of them are Chinese media, but more of them are chaotic small media, many of which Yang Di has never heard of, and they rely more on things outside the arena as a point of attraction, and they can dig as big a hole as they can ask questions.
Isabella looked at Yang Di, who was gradually being embraced away, and lost her voice in surprise, covering her mouth with a look of disbelief.